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Norway data shows global warming is less severe than feared
After the planet’s average surface temperature rose through the 1990s, the increase has almost leveled off at the level of 2000, while ocean water temperature has also stabilized, the Research Council of Norway said in a statement on its website. After applying data from the past decade, the results showed temperatures may rise 1.9 degrees Celsius if Co2 levels double by 2050, below the 3 degrees predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“The Earth’s mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s,” said Terje Berntsen, a professor at the University of Oslo who worked on the study. “This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.”
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Is it even possible to fear something less than having no fear at all?
Flange on January 28, 2013 at 9:46 AM
Another big accomplishment for president Obama.
forest on January 28, 2013 at 9:50 AM
Still blaming human activity, though.
OldEnglish on January 28, 2013 at 9:50 AM
Seems likely the earth warmed at least that much during the 1800′s based on the thawing of the massive glacier that is now called Glacier Bay, Alaska. We have obviously been having a fairly steady rate of global warming for at least 220 years.
Buddahpundit on January 28, 2013 at 9:52 AM
It hasn’t almost leveled off
there’s been zero Global Warming for 16 years, that’s as level as it gets.
Slade73 on January 28, 2013 at 9:54 AM
Don’t the Norwegians know the science is settled and the debate is over? Everyone agrees that more government and less liberty will save the planet.
RadClown on January 28, 2013 at 9:57 AM
It is a scam….
or as john Roberts would say in upholding the con game…
“it’s a tax.”
harlekwin15 on January 28, 2013 at 9:58 AM
This is what is known as gracefully extricating yourself. After all the screaming, all the ruined reputations, all the screams of “how Stupid!” those who “disbelieved” were, this is their cover story.
What a terrible waste of manpower and time and effort.
Bulletchaser on January 28, 2013 at 9:58 AM
As Bob Uecker used to say, thats “just a bit outside‘
BobMbx on January 28, 2013 at 9:59 AM
Can it be like ,you know , less than “settled science”?..
the_nile on January 28, 2013 at 10:10 AM
Told ya so last week, sesqui, wherever you are.
Resist We Much on January 28, 2013 at 10:16 AM
We are starting to get accurate data on warming and sea level. Prior to the last 20 years or so the data was suspect at best and just plain wrong in many cases. The other problem is with using proxy data which isn’t really real data but rather data gathered from other sources and manipulated to represent temperature data.
Even with the more accurate data it’s still not possible to pin it on humans. Maybe in 50 or 60 years we can but trying to do it now just doesn’t cut it.
I blame Gore. It was his film and his scam from the start. He used his position as VP and his status as a former VP to prime the money pump and it was downhill from there. We as first worlders have to have something to be guilty about because most of us cannot accept that we are so much better off than the rest of the world.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 28, 2013 at 10:31 AM
No. You just, plain lied your azzes off, including about what the actual temps were and and what the historical temps were. Now, reality is slapping you in the face and you can’t continue on with your fraud as easily as before.
Most of the climate scientologists should be sitting in jail along with the turds in politics who funded them and carried out insane policies to drive this fraud.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 28, 2013 at 10:40 AM
As long as AGW can be leveraged to control people and raise money, it will never go away.
The Rogue Tomato on January 28, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Pffft. All data shows global warming is less severe than feared.
It’s what they do with the data that shows global warming is severe.
Dusty on January 28, 2013 at 11:06 AM
Hide the Decline!
John the Libertarian on January 28, 2013 at 11:11 AM
+1 – That is all anyone really needs to know about the whole enchilada.
Knott Buyinit on January 28, 2013 at 11:44 AM
And don’t forget, when they “smooth” the data across large geographic regions, they use the metropolitan temperature data preferentially because it’s supposedly more accurate… oh, and hotter.
If the officers of a publicly-traded company did to it’s balance sheet what “climate scientists” have done to weather data, they would go to jail, not to the Nobel award ceremonies.
Globaloney is the biggest scam of all time.
drunyan8315 on January 28, 2013 at 11:55 AM
Obviously the University of Oslo is full of flat-earthers. And racists…
cicerone on January 28, 2013 at 12:19 PM
Fixed that for you.
Fenris on January 28, 2013 at 12:43 PM